Massage Therapy

What is fascia?

July 24, 2009

What is fascia? If you’ve ever cooked chicken, you’ve probably noticed it. The thin, transparent, filmy material that covers the chicken meat. Our muscles are covered in fascia. Fascia covers every muscle and keeps the muscle together. Fascia covers and protects every single muscle bundle or fascicle that makes up the muscle. Fascia also covers every [...]

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Massage Therapy and the HST

July 23, 2009

There are plans to harmonize Ontario’s retail sales tax with the federal Goods and Services Tax (GST). This means that the new 13% harmonized tax will apply to massage therapy as well. Here is an excerpt from the Ontario Massage Therapist Association (OMTA). Harm to Patients Massage therapy is not covered by the Ontario Health [...]

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Improve Your Shoulder Posture by Changing Your Workout

July 11, 2009

One of the most important and long lasting ways to get rid of neck and shoulder pain is to change your posture. I am sure that you have all heard it from your massage therapist, but, how can you change your posture after it’s been that way for decades? The body has already been trained [...]

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Can I get a massage for free?

June 30, 2009

Yes Virginia, you can get a free massage. Most of my clients actually don’t pay a cent for massage. They have extended health benefits through work which pays for their massages. Everybody with extended health benefits actually pays a little bit every month to cover the cost of the insurance policy with their employer paying [...]

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